Panggilan Darah (Call of Blood) is a film from the Dutch East Indies
(now Indonesia) written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced
by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. Released on 30 June 1941, the black-
and-white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to
make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia (now Jakarta) as
housemaids for a man named Iskak, before moving to Kudus to work at a
clove cigarette factory. They later discover that they are Iskak's
nieces, and are welcomed into his home. Panggilan Darah, shot on
location at an orphanage and two factories in central Java, was a modest
commercial success in the Indies and Singapore. The acting drew critical
praise, and the soundtrack, with nine kroncong songs, was mentioned
favorably. Despite this success, Oriental was unable to meet its
expenses, and merged into Multi Film soon afterwards. Panggilan Darah,
which was screened as late as 1952, may now be lost.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panggilan_Darah>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the
Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers
participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate>
1894:
London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridge
over the River Thames, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge>
1934:
Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung
(SA), its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals in the Night of
the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives>
1963:
A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco killed seven
police and military officers near Palermo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaculli_bombing>
1987:
The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar
coin, commonly known as the Loonie.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kohl:
A dark powder (usually powdered antimony) used as eye makeup, especially
in Eastern countries; stibnite.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kohl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Through all the Employments of Life Each Neighbour abuses his
Brother; Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife: All Professions be-
rogue one another: The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat, The Lawyer be-
knaves the Divine: And the Statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his
Trade as honest as mine.
--John Gay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gay>
Tropical Storm Bill hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in the
summer of 2003. The second storm of that Atlantic hurricane season, Bill
developed from a tropical wave on June 29 to the north of the Yucatán
Peninsula. It slowly organized as it moved northward, and reached a peak
of 60 mph (95 km/h) shortly before making landfall in south-central
Louisiana. It produced a moderate storm surge, causing tidal flooding.
In Montegut in the northeastern portion of the state, a levee was
breached, flooding many homes, and in Florida, two swimmers drowned. As
Bill accelerated to the northeast, moisture from the storm, combined
with cold air from an approaching cold front, produced an outbreak of
34 tornadoes. Moderate winds and wet soil combined to topple trees onto
houses and power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without electric
power. By the time Bill became extratropical on July 2, it was
responsible for four deaths and around $50 million in damage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Bill_(2003)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1444:
In their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, Albanians led by
Skanderbeg routed the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Torvioll.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Torvioll>
1613:
The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after
a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of
William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre>
1914:
During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo,
numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Serb_riots_in_Sarajevo>
1967:
Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their
driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her
children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield>
2007:
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone, which
revolutionized the smartphone industry and made the company one of the
world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chunder:
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chunder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It
is not something discovered: it is something molded. These prison walls
that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can
still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in
response to our call, the impassioned chant of the human voice.
--Antoine de Saint Exupéry
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry>
The white-naped xenopsaris (Xenopsaris albinucha) is a bird in the
family Tityridae found in the South American countries of Venezuela,
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It lives in open
woodland and other open forest habitats, and is mostly sedentary, though
some populations may be migratory. The only species in its genus, it is
closely related to becards and tityras, and was thought to be either a
tyrant-flycatcher or cotinga before it was placed in the Tityridae
family. The bird is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9–5.1 in) in length, with
whitish undersides, a black crown and grey-brown upperparts. The sexes
are similar in appearance, though the females have duller upperparts. It
feeds on insects in the foliage of trees and bushes, and sometimes on
the ground. In a simple cup nest in the fork of a tree, both parents
incubate the eggs and help feed the chicks. After the chicks have
fledged, the parents may divide the brood, each helping one or two
chicks. The species is not common and little is known about it, but it
is not in danger of extinction.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-naped_xenopsaris>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
572:
Alboin, king of the Lombards, was assassinated in a coup d'état
instigated by the Byzantines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alboin>
1841:
Giselle (Anna Pavlova pictured in the title role), a ballet by
French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de
l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselle>
1904:
In Denmark's worst maritime disaster, SS Norge ran aground on
Hasselwood Rock, Helen's Reef, in foggy weather, and sank, resulting in
more than 635 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge>
1942:
World War II: The German Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a
strategic summer offensive intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the
war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue>
2009:
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military
coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran
constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
honda:
1. (western US) A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso,
through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger
loop.
2. (western US) A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or
otherwise improve a simple rope honda.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/honda>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau>
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author
Radclyffe Hall that follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman
from an upper-class family. Her "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is
apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she
meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their
happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection. The
novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an
explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". Although its
only sexual reference consists of the words "and that night, they were
not divided", a British court judged it obscene because it defended
"unnatural practices between women". In the United States the book
survived legal challenges. Publicity over The Well's legal battles
increased the visibility of lesbians in British and American culture.
Gordon's expressions of self-hatred have been faulted for inspiring
shame, but the book was for decades the best-known lesbian novel in
English, and often the first source of information about lesbianism that
young people could find.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_of_Loneliness>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1556:
The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near
London for their Protestant beliefs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_Martyrs>
1864:
American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman's
frontal assault against the Army of Tennessee failed, but that did not
stop Sherman's advance on Atlanta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kennesaw_Mountain>
1905:
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny
against their oppressive officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin>
1927:
Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi led a conference to
discuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial,
a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be a
forgery).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka_Memorial>
2007:
As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and
police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil
police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexo_do_Alem%C3%A3o_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
standee:
1. Somebody who is forced to stand, for example, on a crowded bus.
2. A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a
celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes; a
cut-out.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/standee>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture,
then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people,
and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world
which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and
nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that
which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It
doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine,
it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together,
because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear",
or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all
love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in
all other things I immediately find division.
--Krzysztof Kieślowski
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kie%C5%9Blowski>
Jun'yō ("Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the
Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down as the passenger liner
Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under
construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June
1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian
Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles of the
Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land
bases during battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns.
Jun'yō was torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under
repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the
Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking
aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed
again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work
was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively hulked for the
rest of the war. After the surrender of Japan in September, the
Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her
serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was broken up in
1946 and 1947.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Jun%27y%C5%8D>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1740:
War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops,
free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's
strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Mose>
1886:
French chemist Henri Moissan reported he was able to
successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine>
1907:
Organised by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others,
Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach,
getting away with 341,000 rubles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery>
1942:
The Grumman F6F Hellcat made its first flight, and went on to
become the United States Navy's dominant fighter in the second part of
World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat>
1996:
Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was
stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's
Criminal Assets Bureau.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Guerin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Georgian:
[…] Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and
George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United
Kingdom (1714–1830).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Georgian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the
hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to be flung in naked
words to the ears of the profane.
--Julian
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian>
The ukiyo-e genre of art flourished in Japan from the 17th to the 19th
century. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such
subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers, scenes
from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, flora and
fauna, and erotica. The term ukiyo-e refers to pictures of the ukiyo or
"floating world" of kabuki theatre, courtesans, and geisha of the
pleasure districts. Images of this environment became successful in the
1670s with Moronobu's paintings and monochromatic prints of beautiful
women. By the 1740s, artists such as Masanobu were using multiple
woodblocks to print areas of colour. In the 1760s, with the success of
Harunobu's "brocade prints", full-colour production of prints made with
numerous blocks became standard. Portraits of beauties and actors by
masters such as Kiyonaga, Utamaro, and Sharaku were prominent in the
late 18th century. Masters from the 19th century include the bold
formalist Hokusai, whose Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the best-
known works of Japanese art, and the serene, atmospheric Hiroshige, most
noted for his series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1658:
Anglo-Spanish War: English colonial forces repelled a Spanish
attack in the largest battle ever fought on the island of Jamaica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rio_Nuevo>
1950:
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-
dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War>
1967:
More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the
first live international satellite television production.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_World_(TV_special)>
2009:
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of
drugs in his body.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson>
2013:
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the eighth Emir of Qatar, and
is currently the world's youngest reigning monarch.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamim_bin_Hamad_Al_Thani>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
glen:
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running
through it; a dale; a depression between hills.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glen>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Forgive him who wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to
him who does evil to you; and speak the truth even if it be against
yourself.
--Muhammad
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muhammad>
4 is the fourth studio album by American singer Beyoncé (pictured),
released on June 24, 2011, by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia
Records. In collaborations with songwriters and producers The-Dream,
Tricky Stewart, and Shea Taylor, Beyoncé aimed for a mellower rhythm
and blues tone with influences from funk, hip hop, and soul. She severed
professional ties with Mathew Knowles, her father and manager, to help
her develop an intimate, personal album. The lyrics emphasize monogamy,
female empowerment and self-reflection. The album received generally
positive reviews from music critics, and some put it on their year-end
lists. It was her fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the
US Billboard 200, and it also reached number one in Brazil, France,
Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It
spawned the international singles "Run the World (Girls)", "Best Thing I
Never Had", "Party", "Love On Top" and "Countdown". "Love On Top" won
the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B; Performance at the 55th
annual ceremony. The album has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the
United States.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_(Beyonc%C3%A9_album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1571:
Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established a
council to govern the city of Manila (Manila Cathedral pictured), now
the capital of the Philippines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila>
1717:
The first Masonic Grand Lodge, the Premier Grand Lodge of
England, was founded in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Grand_Lodge_of_England>
1880:
"O Canada", today the national anthem of Canada, was first
performed in Quebec City, during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada>
1937:
The United States' first two "fast battleships", the North
Carolina class, were ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval
Shipyards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina-class_battleship>
2010:
John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in the longest
match in tennis history (11 hours and 5 minutes, spread over three
days).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbled…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
drayage:
1. Transportation by dray.
2. (by extension) The transport of goods over a short distance,
particularly from a terminal such as an ocean port to another
destination, usually as part of a longer transportation of the goods.
3. A fee paid for the provision of such transportation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drayage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never
fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and
blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The
cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and
secretly bad.
--Henry Ward Beecher
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher>
The uprising in eastern Herzegovina on 23 June 1941 was a Serb rebellion
against the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), an
Axis puppet state established during World War II on the territory of
the defeated Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As the NDH imposed its authority,
members of the fascist Ustaše ruling party had begun a campaign of
persecution against Serbs throughout the country. In eastern
Herzegovina, the Ustaše perpetrated a series of massacres and attacks
against the majority Serb population commencing in the first week of
June, igniting a series of spontaneous clashes between the NDH
authorities and groups of Serbs. On 23 June, the day after the start of
the German invasion of the Soviet Union, sporadic revolts erupted into
mass rebellion, triggered by Ustaše persecution, Serb solidarity with
the Russian people, hatred and fear of the NDH authorities, and other
factors. The Italians intervened after several setbacks for the NDH
forces, who regained full control of all towns and transport routes by 7
July.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1941_uprising_in_eastern_Herzegovina>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1757:
Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated
troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the
British East India Company to annex Bengal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plassey>
1858:
Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal
authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an
international controversy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortara_case>
1887:
The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act,
creating Banff National Park (Lake Louise pictured) as the country's
first national park.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_National_Park>
1956:
Gamal Abdel Nasser became President of Egypt, a post he held
until his death in 1970.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser>
2014:
Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the
last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for
destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
linocut:
(art, printing) A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used
for the relief surface; the design cut into the block.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/linocut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their
belief precludes everybody else's. … I am an atheist and an absurdist
and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of
flack for that.
--Joss Whedon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon>
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June 22: Tidus
by English Wikipedia Article of the Day
22 Jun '17
22 Jun '17
Tidus is a role-playing video game character, introduced as the
protagonist of Final Fantasy X in 2001. He is a 17-year-old star
blitzball player who joins a pilgrimage to destroy a creature that
attacked Zanarkand, his hometown. He has appeared in other video games,
including the Final Fantasy X sequel Final Fantasy X-2, the Kingdom
Hearts series, and several Square Enix crossover games. The cheerful
Tidus was designed by Tetsuya Nomura. Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima
gave him frequent monologues describing the game's setting. Tidus is
voiced in English by James Arnold Taylor and in Japanese primarily by
Masakazu Morita, who also performed the motion capture. Video game
critics judged Tidus an appealing protagonist, with excellent character
development. Although reviewers and fans were divided on Taylor's voice
work, Tidus enjoyed popularity with fans, often ranking as one of the
best Final Fantasy characters in polls. He is a popular cosplay
character.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
813:
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: A vastly outnumbered Bulgarian
Empire force defeated a Byzantine army in the Battle of Versinikia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Versinikia>
1813:
War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack,
Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston,
Ontario, Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Secord>
1911:
George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the
United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck>
1941:
World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet
Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate
Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania>
1986:
Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the "Hand of
God goal" and the "Goal of the Century" against England during the
quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_v_England_(1986_FIFA_World_Cup)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lagniappe:
(Louisiana, Mississippi, Trinidad and Tobago, uncommon) An extra or
unexpected gift or benefit, such as that given to customers when they
purchase something.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lagniappe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest
that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is
being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one
is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh>
Ram Narayan (born 1927) is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed
sarangi of Hindustani classical music as a solo concert instrument and
became its first international virtuoso. He was born near Udaipur and
learned to play at an early age. He studied under sarangi players and
singers and, as a teenager, worked as a music teacher and travelling
musician. All India Radio, Lahore, hired him as an accompanist for
vocalists in 1944. He moved to Delhi following the partition of India in
1947 and moved to Mumbai in 1949 to work in Indian cinema. He had his
first success as a concert solo artist in 1956 and has since performed
at major music festivals in India. After sitar player Ravi Shankar
successfully performed in Western countries, Narayan followed his
example. He recorded solo albums and made his first international tour
in 1964 to America and Europe with his older brother Chatur Lal, a tabla
player who had toured with Shankar in the 1950s. Narayan taught Indian
and foreign students and performed into the 2000s. He was awarded
India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2005.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Narayan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1734:
A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been
convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of Montreal, was
tortured and then hanged in New France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Joseph_Ang%C3%A9lique>
1826:
Greek War of Independence: A combined Egyptian and Ottoman army
began their invasion of the Mani Peninsula, but they were initially held
off by the Maniots at the fortifications of Vergas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Egyptian_invasion_of_Mani>
1864:
New Zealand Wars: British victory in the Battle of Te Ranga
brought the Tauranga Campaign to an end.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_Campaign>
1948:
The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (replica
pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first
computer program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine>
1963:
Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope
Paul VI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
midnight sun:
The phenomenon occurring when the Sun does not set but only approaches
the horizon at midnight; it occurs near the summer solstice in the polar
regions.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/midnight_sun>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes
him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.
--Mary McCarthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_McCarthy>